posted: May 30, 2023.

I want to fly like an eagle... Songs of the 70s. We are getting old.  Some of my classmates have already passed on.  I am nearing the age when my mother died. Read more

posted: May 24, 2023.

Make room for feelings. I just got back from my last child's college graduation.  It was not easy.  Kids drink and party and get exhausted.  They are scared.  Social media is Read more

posted: Apr. 20, 2023.

I find myself thinking on death.  So many deaths around me, us.  So much loss and pain.  Your best friend's mother. Your other friend's ex-husband, cancer, parents, children, guns.  It's Read more

posted: Mar. 28, 2023.

How do you get unstuck from feeling like you're underwater?   In this world of mass home-grown gun violence that terrorizes our own children, whom clearly we value less than the Read more

posted: Feb. 13, 2023.

INTRO: Courtney was the kind of 10th grade client that I completely enjoyed.  She was cute, clever and motivated. So when she began to have an issue that ballooned into a Read more

posted: Jan. 31, 2023.

Sandra was 34, had just left a bad relationship of stuckness and sadness.  Her friends had left.  Her parents were never in her corner.  We tried for one year for Read more

posted: Jan. 01, 2023.

     If you're hard on yourself like I am, why not make the new year about change and growth?  It's not about eating less, or stopping your OCD habits, Read more

posted: Dec. 15, 2022.

What is going on here? People are still: tired, cold, burnt-out, lonely, stressed, bored, stuck and unmotivated.  Kids.  Especially teens.  But they're back at school.  Why OH Why is this holiday Read more

posted: Oct. 31, 2022.

I just got back from my 40+2 years High School reunion.  It was the ultimate connection and we all agreed we were so very fortunate to have shared a relatively Read more

posted: Oct. 05, 2022.

Photo Credit @madgescottstudio       I get no respect, said Jackie Mason the comedian.  That's how I feel.  Oh mom's in the basement working with clients. What an easy gig!! Read more

posted: Oct. 01, 2022.

Something is off and it's not just "languishing." My clients are tired, fatigued, burnt-out and incredibly lonely.  You wouldn't think it's so bad in the Big Apple but isolation lies in Read more

posted: Aug. 21, 2022.

     I dreaded the first face-to-face family therapy session since covid. I had pimples on my chin from masking and I didn't care to put on make-up, barely doing Read more

posted: Aug. 18, 2022.

PHOTO CREDIT @Rosalind Banks; Art By Rosalind @Facebook Previously published: https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/2022/06/12/college-students-are-struggling-are-schools-doing-enough-help      I just returned from a law school graduation at the shockingly beautiful Cornell campus. Once known as a pressure Read more

posted: Apr. 09, 2022.

A Memoir in 5 Parts LOSS: I was born in New York, New York. NYC. The Big Apple. Nothing too dramatic happened. I attended Rivervale, NJ Elementary School until first grade. Read more

posted: Apr. 04, 2022.

     Once I was waiting in a crowded city waiting room, in the paralyzing dread of my upcoming amniocentesis.  These were the days before trigger warnings.  I just sat Read more

posted: Mar. 13, 2022.

      By now we've discussed pandemic fatigue, languishing, anxiety, lack of services, suicide rates, social media, FOMO, triggers, fake news, school shootings, a former narcissistic, toxic, grandiose and Read more